Background
He was born in Mokpo, of Korea, under Imperial Japanese rule.
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Soon Oh
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Oh attended high school at Gwangju, South of Korea, and attended Yonsei University in Seoul, the University of Southern California, and later received an Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Los Angeles
Career
He has starred in many films, and also acted in television series, including MacGyver, M*A*South*H, Charlie"s Angels, Airwolf,, Hawaii Five-O, Kung-Fu, Zorro, and Touched by an Angel. Oh was wrongly said to have been born in Japan, due to his career playing Japanese characters. He emigrated with his family to America when he was a teenager.
On Broadway, he appeared in the original cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures.
In 1995 he founded the Korean American theatre group, Society of Heritage Performers, which later evolved into the present Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. Babylon 5.
Membership
He was one of the earliest members of East West Players, an Asian American theatre group founded in 1965.
